J. K. Rowling, Quotes

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books?

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who - well - something of that sort.

Brains like that, you could be a Death Eater, son.

Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him. "You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

A lemon drop. They're a kind of Muggle sweet I'm rather fond of.

Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard.

I don't need a cloak to become invisible.

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel — Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.

It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless.

Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?

Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore

You'll stay with me?' Until the very end,' said James.

And they'd [the Death Eaters] love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.

But she's ditched Dean!

What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

Wow, we're identical!

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

I have seen your heart, and it is mine.

Did you know— then?” asked Harry. “Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No.

You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.

You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds.

You are — truly your father’s son, Harry. . . .

Potter! There are hundreds of people thundering through my pub!

On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.

I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing!